[mythtv-users] OT: IVTV Requires Cold Boot

[huffman at graze.net]

Louie Ilievski <loudawg at comcast.net> wrote: 
> On Thursday 03 November 2005 06:26 pm, huffman at graze.net wrote:
> > If I do a *cold* reboot, everything works as expected.
> >
> > Ideas?
> 
> I think this is probably normal.  They have said numerous times on the IVTV 
> list that because the driver is mostly reverse-engineered, they do not have 
> the capability to correctly initialize everything on the board, so data is 
> retained in a warm boot, whereas a cold boot will flush everything out.  On 
> my system, if I do a warm boot after a successful load of ivtv, then it still 
> seems to load again just fine, so I'm not sure why you get that behavior 
> unless the warm boot was after upgrading to a different driver version.
> 

I read that too.  Nope - happens every time - I haven't changed the drivers
since the install...

-b